Inquisition and Knowledge, 1200-1700. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Biller and L.J. Sackville.
• Editors: Biller, Peter; Sackville, L. J
• Other Names: Bird, Jessalynn; Sala, Alessandro; Feuchter, Jörg; Kras, Paweł; Bueno, Irene; Välimäki, Reima; Poznański, Adam; Kieckhefer, Richard
• Contents: Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Overture -- York -- The theme -- The chapters -- Post-medieval: the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Coda -- PART I: Medieval -- 1 -- Inquisitorial identity and authority in thirteenth-century exegesis and sermons -- Sources and discourses: sermons on ideal preachers and good and bad shepherds -- Discernment of shepherds, sheep, dogs, and wolves -- Detection and rehabilitation: the image of the heretic as leper Masters and mendicants: sermons and inquests against heresy -- 2 -- Shaping the image of the heretics: The narratio in Gregory IX's letters -- 3 -- Nepos of Montauban, assistant to inquisition and defender of the accused -- 1. Nepos and his part in the Liber fugitivus: redactor, not author -- 2. Biographical information in Nepos's redaction of the Liber fugitivus -- 3. Nepos as judge of the Toulousan Albigeois -- 4. Nepos of Montauban and his home town -- 5. Nepos as donatus of the abbey of St Théodard -- 6. Nepos as inquisitor's assistant and scribe in the 1240s -- 7. A sketch of Nepos's life 8. Discussion of heretics and heresy in Nepos's version of the Liber fugitivus -- 4 -- The hunt for the Heresy of the Free Spirit -- The 1332 inquisitorial records and past research -- The 'cowled nuns' of Świdnica -- John of Schwenkenfeld and his 1332 investigation -- Conclusion -- 5 -- Late medieval heresiography and the categorisation of Eastern Christianity -- Anti-heresy writing and the reception of Greeks and Armenians -- Conclusions -- 6 -- The portrayal of the Waldensian Brethren in the De vita et conversacione -- Manuscripts and versions -- The slippery slope from holy men to heresiarchs Conclusion -- Appendix -- 7 -- Means of persuasion in medieval anti-heretical texts -- 8 -- Constructing narratives of witchcraft -- PART II: Early Modern -- 9 -- Matthias Flacius Illyricus and his use of inquisition registers and manuals -- 1. The formation of a Lutheran concept of history -- 2. Matthias Flacius and his concept of truth witnesses -- 3. Networking: the collection of inquisition manuals and registers -- 4. Inquisition records and manuals in the library of Flacius: an overview -- 5. Techniques and aims of the use of inquisition protocols and manuals by Flacius -- Conclusion 10 -- The 'Cathars as Protestant' myth and the formation of heterodox identity -- 11 -- The seventeenth-century introductions to medieval inquisition records -- 12 -- History in the Dominican Convent in Toulouse in 1666 and 1668 -- i. The medieval archive -- ii. Mid-seventeenth century: the convent -- iii. 1666: Antonin Réginald's Chronicon Inquisitorum -- iv. 1668: Jean de Doat's visit -- Appendix -- 13 -- The Roman Inquisition: between reality and myth -- Index -- Heresy and Inquisition in the Middle Ages
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, UK : York Medieval Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (360 pages)
• Subjects: 272.2; Inquisition; Christian heresies -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Information behavior -- History; Inquisition; Hérésies chrétiennes -- Histoire -- 600-1500 (Moyen Âge); Comportement dans la recherche de l'information -- Histoire; Christian heresies -- Middle Ages; Information behavior; Inquisition; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800103887; 1800103883; 9781800103870; 1800103875
• Related ISBNs: 1914049039; 9781914049033
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 01, 2022).
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